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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced today that malaria incidence and mortality have decreased by 37% and 60%, respectively, since 2000, thus meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halting and reversing malaria incidence by 2015.
Guinea hasn't had a case since Sep 1, but Sierra Leone reports 5 cases in 2 regions.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases in Riyadh today that don't appear to be linked to a large hospital outbreak, and it confirmed a death in a previously reported patient.
Of 3 new cases, 2 involve foreign healthcare workers in their 20s in Riyadh.
Stephan Monroe, PhD, who has been the CDC's acting head of lab safety since May, will report directly to the CDC director.
If approved, the Novartis product would be the nation's first boosted flu vaccine.
Nigeria reported six new outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu affecting more than 28,000 chickens, bringing to 12 the number of outbreaks reported this month, according to separate reports filed yesterday with the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
President Barack Obama today nominated deputy commissioner Robert Califf, MD, as the next Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, Bloomberg News reported. If approved by the Senate, Califf would replace Margaret Hamburg, MD, who stepped down in March after serving 6 years.
Cases are in some of the country's major cities, such as Jeddah—a primary arrival spot—and Medina.
Sierra Leone has reported two more Ebola cases, including a fatal one that is not part of a recent cluster in the northwestern Kambia district.
Medina cases are a worry, given the throngs of Hajj pilgrims visiting holy sites.
US health officials are grappling with a surge in human cases of tularemia in several states this year, Reuters reported today.
Colorado has had 41 confirmed cases so far this year, Wyoming 14—including 1 death—and South Dakota at least 19, the story said, and a Nebraska official today told CIDRAP News that that state has had 18, for a total of 92 in the four states.
Also, a WHO roundup of 25 recent Saudi cases hints at the types of virus exposure some hospital patients had.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today finalized the first two of seven major rules for implementing the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)—those covering prevention steps for both human and animal food.
An end-of-season analysis on how seasonal flu vaccines performed in the United Kingdom has found low effectiveness, not much different than the midseason estimate, researchers reported today in Eurosurveillance.
With 2 new Saudi cases, results of a gene study hint at enhanced transmissibility.
Along with reporting just 2 new cases, the WHO issues Ebola guidance for pregnancy.
Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu has struck Nigerian poultry again, this time a backyard flock in Rivers state in the south, according to a report posted yesterday by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
The virus killed 450 of a flock of 528 broiler chickens, cockerels, and turkeys. The surviving 78 birds were culled to prevent disease spread. All the birds were housed in the same pen.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that 56 more illnesses have been reported in a multistate Salmonella Poona outbreak linked to cucumbers imported from Mexico, raising the total so far to 341 cases.
As Sierra Leone stamps out a new flareup, a Dallas hospital shares lessons learned from treating the first US patient.
